ROiNEY AND TAXES: PACING POVERTY See editorial page Y gutA6 4Datii AUSTERE lgh.-54 Low-4Q Partly cloudy, windy, generally dismal Vol. LXXIX No. 47 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, October 23, 1968 Ten Cents Eight Pages Board sheriff acts on probe SGC sit-jn may over Supervisors vote to increase{ control of Harvey's finances By HAROLD ROSENTHAL The County Board of Supervisors yesterday voted to increase the county's control over spending by Sheriff Doug- - , las Harvey. The board also noved to refer all information gathered by the special committee investigating Harvey's department to state and local officials, The committee's report was based on questions and "an- swers it exchanged with Harvey. The committee inquired about Harvey's finances on several extradition trips to the ~ ~_ -- - - West coast, the publication of a "safety guide" and the op- eration of a prisoner's conces- sion stand and commissary. The board adopted the follow- as~ f cutRS ing committee recommendations: at"That the sheriff be pro- vided a business m'anager to assist him in 'providing more efficient Vj control of funds within his de-! e as partment; By ERIK, HOFF * "That the county adminis- trator formulate and present to stude ts aephooseoy graduate the County Ways and Means students ra~e prsenathast tin Committee a procedural policy Sstudent representatives sit in on covering extraditions and travel all faculty meetings with the formc emptoysn for all county employes; a voting status of assistant" profes- "That the entire questions, sors. answers and reports be forwarded The students who made the pro- to the state attorney general-and posal said they felt that it would auditor general, the county prose- meet with "unanimous support cuting attorney and the circuit organize refusal v Newell of funds b Action hinoes on results of today'stalks' By LESLIE WAYNE and MARTIN HIRSCHMAN Student Government Coun- cil officers yesterday threat- ened to organize a sit-in if Acting Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs Barbara Newell does not move this morning to release the $100 Council ap- propriated to form SGC Incor- porated. The threat came after the stu- dents met with Mrs. Newell yes- terday and the vice president ad- What goes up.. . One of the Apollo 7 astronauts is shown leaving his capsule after completing an 11-day flight in space. Frogmen from the carrier IJSS Essex assist him prior to being lifted into a helicopter. ON ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES: Faculty heads receptive to, student membership among, the graduate students. Prof. Richard Brant, chairman of the departm n, said the fac- ulty voted unanimously in favor of the proposal with the provision that certain details be worked out. .One 'of the problems is a Re- gental by-law that might prohibit graduate students' voting as junior faculty members.; Brant also pointed out that there, court judges; * "That the prosecuting attor- ney be directed to provide a writ- ten opinion to the board regard- ing the sheriff's personal responsi- bility separate from the county's responsibility in regards to the fund raising activities of the sher- iff and his department." ' The two-and-one-half month investigation leading to the report wwac iti ed ths - th ' By ROB BEATTIE SChairmen of Faculty Assembly has been waiting for the Assembly committee advise might object to to take some action on the matter. the presence of students. "We want BULLETIN Special to The Daily BERKELEY, Cal. -- Campus police began arresting protest- ers In the University of Cali- fornia's Sproul Hall at 10:35j PDT last night following a sit- in there that had begun 11 hours earlier. The students, numbering ap- proximately 150, were protest- ing the failure of the university to allow credit for a course be- ing taught, in part, by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. mitted she was "stalling for time until President Fleming returns to nUii ,eu ay Te Doara au t e are some cases in which thestu- request of Atty. Gen. Frank Kel- dents should not be present at the ley. Kelley said in August that the meetings. E supervisors were best suited to He cited the discussion of grad- conduct the investigation. uate students' letters of recom- The committee noted that it mendation from other' schools and could not recommend any penalty the discussion of graduate students' because Harvey answered all the merits as examples. He said they questions submitted to him, even involve "matters of confidence." though they said his answers were Another problem is that of vot- "unsatisfactory." ing on the appointment of future The committee also claimed It prfessers. was limited by only receiving "I feel graduate students cer- Harvey's replies to the committee's tainly have the right to vote on questions. The committee's reportI their own professors" Brant said, states, "Without the benefit of the "but this would invlve spending attorney general's investigation,; the time to attend the interviews." the auditor general's report and Prof. Jack W. Meiland suggest- facts in possession of the circuit ed to the Undergraduate Steering judges of the county, obviously no Committee that they make a sim- recommendations as to the au-; ilar proposal. They have not taken thenticity of the answers can be any action yet. given to the board." Petition drives aim to ,language requiremeni committees feel there is very little "We will now go ahead and try! a free examination opposition to the idea of student to find a mechanism for recruiting the vice presidents,' participation on the committees. students," he says. might be inhibitedt Student leaders, however, are Prof. Noah Sherman, one of the of students." skeptical as to how much effect co-chairmen of the educational Sinnott, howeve hepcange wsit havewn increag policies committee, is also enthu- in the minority, an the change will have in increasingsasiabu hid. find the will of the the power of students in the poli- siastic about the idea. fn h ilo h h NO OBJECTION very comforting. cy-making process 'of the Univer- "Personally I have no objection Student Govern sity. to having students as full commit- president Michael These reactions are in response tee members," Sherman says. As the proposal which to a motion passed Monday by the for actual voting, he explains, passed was a wat Assembly encouraging its commit- "The committee is rarely called sion of the motion. tees to involve studen.ts in their upon to make a decision by voting. would pass. He sa activities. A student vote is largely an il- voting positions to Several chairmen are openly en- lusory priviledge." THREE CONDITIO thusiastic about the idea. Others Prof. Robert Super of the Eng- SGC member,T raise questions concerning the de- lish department, chairman of the says the policy wo gree of interest students would Economic Status of the Faculty only if three cond have in their committees' work Committee, says he thinks stu- Students must hav and the exact nature of the stu- dents would have very little in- on the committees dents' role. terest in the committee's activi- represented in suffI Prof. William Coon of the Med- ties. to carry weight ec ical School, chairman of the clas- "We don't meet very often," the faculty, and sified research committee, says lie Super says, "and we discuss things chosen in such af and his committee are "all in like fringe benefits for the faculty they do not owe th favor" of the idea of student par- members which probably wouldn't the faculty. ticipation. He says the committee interest students very much." The proposal to i The chairman of the campus on the committees planning and development com- to the Assembly 1 cittee; Prof. Maurice Sinnott of 1 =Senate Advisory cha gethe Engineering college, doubts theI University Affairs. committe would accept student the motion, Prof.V members. . chairman of thej SSTUDENTS USED partment, said it ca SSinnott says the committee has of several requests worked vith students on specific tee chairmen. on the language requirement, pro problems in the past and probably Faculty oppositi and con, for several weeks now, would continue to do so. He says hand given to the and indications are - coming as members of the committee feel, structuring the ro of ideas with he says. "They by the presence . seems to be d students don't e majority here anent Council Koeneke says h the Assembly' ered down ver- vhich he hoped ys he expected be assured. ONS Michael Davis, uld be effective itions are met: ve voting power , they must be [icient numbers qual to that of they must be fashion so that eir selection to nclude students was presented Monday by the' The Wright man for Humphrey oC ADA debates .a liberaldiemmta' Ann Arbor." By STEVE NISSEN "I do want to consult with the "What should a liberal's position President," Mrs. Newell s a i d. and strategy be in the presidential Fleming is expected to return to- alectiontog be r thsd day. election of November 5th." day. s s That was the topic of a vigorous The. vice president said she and. sometimes emotional debate would not be ready to make a final b nteemembtofdte decision on releasing the funds between three members of the befre he cheuld metig wthliberal stand-by, Americans for before the scheduled meetingwith Democratic action, and the organ- SI'C officers this morning., ztos eea ebrhpls "I'm going to stall for a little izations general membership last more time because they gave me nih. o ieeca e e gA panel consisting of Professors See'SGC,Page___ _.._ Neff, Rubil to _m___ove / forNSAreaffiliation SBy DANIEL ZWERDEING Daily News Analysis tangibly as the Radical Caucus and Student Government have' Committee on By NADINE COHODAS The NSA motion will be pre- In presenting A motion will be presented to sented by administrative vice pre- William Porter, Student Government Council to- sident Bob Neff and member-at- journalism de- night asking Council to reaffiliate large Gayle Rubin. Neff explained ame as a result with the National Student Assoc- that in the area of education in- from commit- iation. SGC withdrew from the novation NSA "has done some organization last October over the good things." on to the freei growing concern 'that NSA was "We want to keep on top of committees in '"undemocratic and unrepresenta- these, and we don't want to isolate le of the stu- tive." ourselves from other campuses," Neff said. He added SGC would endment to the They will also consider a mo-s- that all com- tion from member E. O. Knowles 1 not be as interested in NSA's legis- including stu- recommending the formation of a latve programs or its student d to the assem- committee to study non-student servics control in student organizations. tThere will be major opposition _ to the motion. Council president Mike Koeneke E said he doubted "the worth of the investment." {. ,- - *Ti"hn m"aiwa ;mattim if ton of '..., nnllartpH almn'gf q (Inn - signn.tl rpq i ,m curriuum m mitteuse o i ecmeu aimness uuusimiuwru the literary college meets students I in independent-petition drives forI today in an open meeting to test abolition of the language require- ! sentiments toward language re- ment. quirement which has stood virtu- If all the signatures are vali- ally unchallenged for 14 years., dated, the petitions will represent Opposition to the requirement- 25 per cent of the total LSA en- accepted for' years as a funda- rollment. And only two weeks be-F mental of the University's liberal hind the campaign, neither Voice arts education - has mounted nor SGC have by any means yet canvassed all the dorms, sorori- * ties, fraternities or apartments. Election da petitions aim to abolish the fmly entrenched requ~irement that literary college students mas- 11)1 ter four semesters or the equiva- strike Caueu lent of at least one foreign lan- guage. h V But petitions alone, says Bob Neff, SGC executive vice presi- y Voice dent, are unlikely to wield much influence with the curriculum By RICK PERLOFF committee where a key recom- Voice-SDS has called for a stu- mendation can be made. "The pe- dent strike Nov. 4 and 5 in pro- titions give us a power base-but test of the national elections. they are more of , device to let The purposes of the strike, dis- students feel they've played a part cussed at last night's Voice meet- in working for academic reform." ing, are to facilitate a rebellion The Radical Caucus drive -- against "mock democracy and the which has been continued by the death-voting of elections, against caucus since it split last week from U.S. suppression of . liberation the official SDS chapter - ap- movements in Vietnam and proaches academic reform more against University participation in radically, by demanding not only similar crimes through war re- an end to language, requirements, search and manipulation of stu- but to all distribution require- dents' lives." ments as well. Gag tours of University build- "Students have a right to control ings like Willow Run Laboratory, their own lives," argues campaign where much o the war research chairman Bernie Elbaum, '71. is conducted, are tentatively plan-"Foreign language and any dis- '-.-----. , , ,_ tribution requirement are in direct. somewhat of a surprise to even optimistic students-it will rec- ommend abolishing the require- ment, or at least severely modify it. however, that they should rep- j dents led to an am resent faculty interests rather than motion requiring those of students. mittees plans for In addition, Sinott feels some dents' be submittec of the vice presidents whom the bly for approval. FINANCIAL SQUEEZ L. Hart Wright and Paul D. Car- rington of the Law School and Dr. Edward Pierce, a local physic- ian, presented three separate al- ternates to that liberal dilemma. Wright maintained that Vice President Humphrey can "provide America with badly needed time" to reach solutions to pressing do- mestic problems. "Humphrey has a special credit with the black community," Wright contended, because t h e Vice President has consistently fought for human rights. He pointed to Humphrey's sup- port for programs such as Medi- care, Social Security, and H e a d Start as indications the Vice Pres- ident will "'search creatively for bold new solutions to the prob- lems facing the black community." Wright lambasted Richard Nix- Dn and his running mate, Spiro Agnew. "I hear this is a new Nixon. I believe it not." He said the election of Nixon amounted to playing "Russian roulette" with a "three-shooter" snefour of the 12 presidents in the 20th century, reached office through death of their predeces- sors. Wright concluded that "to not support Humphrey in order to punish the Democratic party is to punish our country." His remarks were followed by Carrington, who recommended that liberals support Nixon be- cause "peace and progress ar e more likely to occur in a Nixon ad- ministration." "HIupmphrey lacks the ability to get out of the war" and would be "hopelessly impotent" in dealing with "an irresponsible Congress," Carrington contended. He also suggested that pressures an the presidency tend to temper ;he office-holder and hopefully would keep Nixon on a "middle road." "The risks of -a Humphrey failure are substantial. The es- calation of the atnfosphere of despair" would be more likely if Humphrey were elected, Carring- ton warned. "An unsuccessful Nixon admin- istration would set the stage for a rebuilding of the Democratic party" and demonstrate "the bankruptcy of the Republican ap- proach," he added. Following Carrington's present- See ELECTIONS, Page 2 Committee asks language proposals - Th liter.rv collere curicu- Graduate By FRANK BROWNING At The financial squeeze -is on Found for the graduate school. appea Dean Stephen Spurr puts it the gl( bluntly: "In per capita student they j support we're in very bad the sq shape."found an im Not only has the state tight- ing or ened up on its support for the was in University, but federally sup- NSF ported fellowships for grad- sity e uate study have been cut dras- s y tically in many programs. cuts h The most costly cut came By th from the National Defense Ed- ahead, ucation Act (NDEA) program And which for the last two years a d has provided the University agreed with 85 full graduate -fellow- ntete ships ranging from $2,000 to traine $2,400 per year. tling d But this year a maximum of from 45 NDEA fellowships will be The distributed to each university. evenr Meanwhile, National Aero- in stu .. . . . , ~.. ..J '. ..... s. X . .. . . . ,. . .. rl ti fellowship funds cut first. atinai Science ation traineeship grants red to be a bright spot in oomy financial picture as lumped from 48 to 60. But queeze came when the ation told the University Lmediate $5.4 million ceil- n all NSF support here n effect. support at the Univer- xceeds $5.4 million and had to be made quickly. e time the ceiling was set, h, some $1.3 million had y been spent. since the University had to maintain its commit- of $1.1 million for student eships, the acutal whit- down of funds had to come NSF-sponsored research.' situation is aggravated more since the cutbacks udent stipends are felt v byt - rnl-f cr-nn Berkeley, Harvard, Chicago and MIT because the same federal cuts have affected each. But competition arises with smaller graduate schools, the University of Rochester for ex- ample, which will now get the same number or NDEA stipends -45-as the University. Consequently, the University is expected to lose many of its brightest potential graduate students to schools where the competition is less keen. Special internal problems be- gin to arise between depart- ments when the federal cuts come. For example, 51 depart- ments met the minimum rem quirements for NDEA fellow- ship aid this year. When the cut from 85 to 45 fellowship was made, some of these depart- ments were left without any grants at all. R' ._ .. F.... .7 7 .. .. ... . $500,000 in about $8,000 pack- ages' to its departments, and another $190,000 is divided among 40 doctoral candidates --primarily in the social sci-_ ences and humanities-who are writing their dissertations. And there are other sources of support for graduate stu- dents. At least $2 million is spent annually in teaching and research assistantships. A total of about 1,800 graduate stu- dents are listed in some way on the University's research pay- roll. This is about one-fourth of the graduate school's 7,000 on-campus students. Both Spurr and Vice Presi- dent for Research A. Geoffrey Norman believe that the federal cuts have reached a levelling off point. But as Spurr readily admits, the cost of education per student is rising at least at the rate of inflation of the na- ._ _ _ . __.__ _ .. , _ _ .-. .. "Their legislative programs are never carried out on campuses," he said. "Although they do have some educational reforms, I question, whether we get enough benefit for what it costs." Knowles, who was strongly in favor of last year's withdrawal, said he was "totally against the reaffiliation under any circum- istances." Last spring ,a similar motion to have SOC reaffiliate with NSA I was proposed, but Council decid- ed to send Neff and Sharon Low- en to the NSA convention in Aug- ust as observers and then take action upon their recommenda- tions. Knowles' proposal on student or- ganizations follows occasional consideration of the problem. He withdrew an earlier proposal ask- ing Council to determine whether or not sororities and fraternities qualify as student organizations. Koeneke said Council "realizes certain student organizations have non-student control. We want to find out where this is in all stu- dent organizations," he explained.